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To make matters worse, there's evidence malaria can hide in the spleen. https://www.nejm.org/doi/10.1056/NEJMc2023884 https://www.nejm.org/doi/10.1056/NEJMc202
by greazy 4y ago
To make matters worse, there's evidence malaria can hide in the spleen.
https://www.nejm.org/doi/10.1056/NEJMc2023884 https://www.nejm.org/doi/10.1056/NEJMc2023884
- refurb 4y agoI'm curious why you think it's worse? P. falciparum infection can be hard to eradicate in general, as the paper states the blood can be an infection reservoir. It's certainly interesting that viable malaria parasites can be harbored in the spleen (where they were originally thought to accumulate, but destroyed in the end) but this discovery doesn't really change the prognosis?
- greazy 4y agoThe objective is eradication when it comes to malaria due to the high risk factors of outbreaks and endemicity. The last mile to eradication is hindered by malaria hiding in the spleen. It makes treatment harder, eradication harder. The more hurdles the more people die.